Monday, June 17, 2013

That Same River: Poem/Sonnet


That same river

by Armando Ortiz


By the river we shed tears

Reliving age old battles

As the fallen floated by like withered flowers


On the streams we were born with screams of lorn;

Into the flow of time, bloodied, we were thrown-

With her we fell in love, and her milk we yearn


Into the rapids of vice we were swallowed

Hoping to drown the sorrow with handmade gallows

Only to open our eyes to the white garble of life’s desire


The currents are ceaseless, and relentlessly ever present.


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